Word: tick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carry his more dubious conclusions. And, if when you finish you still don't quite believe that Daddy Warbucks is alive and well and living in the executive suites of America, at least you will have a bit more insight into what does make the typical business mind tick so relentlessly...
...victims lived in wooded areas heavily infested with insects, and because the cases usually cropped up at the height of the insect season, the Yale doctors had good reason to suspect that the carrier was a bug. Indeed, some of the victims remembered being bitten by a tick, although their blood has shown no specific signs of a bacterial or viral invasion. Yet recently the Yale doctors found an important clue: sampled early in the course of the disease, the blood of some victims revealed telltale proteins called cryoglobulins,* which may be linked to an immune reaction, and have also...
...arthritis in their own areas. These cases suggest that the disease may have been misdiagnosed or overlooked in the past and may actually be widespread. In fact, in the latest issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the Yale doctors point out that European doctors have long known of a tick-borne infection called erythema chronicum migrans; it is characterized by a similar reddening, although it has so far never been associated with arthritis. Now the Yale researchers will concentrate on finding the culprit, presumably a tick-borne virus. That should lead to a better understanding of-if not a cure...
Tight as a Tick. Arriving in London aboard Air Force One with an entourage that included more than 50 Secret Service agents, Carter was grandly welcomed by Prime Minister James Callaghan "on behalf of the whole Continent." The President responded warmly by emphasizing "the special and very precious relationship" between the U.S. and Britain. He dramatized those ties the next day when he visited Newcastle -upon-Tyne, ancestral home of George Washington...
...fare nearly so well. Originally booked into Claridge's, the posh hostelry favored by Henry Kissinger, they had to revise their plans. Bent on frugality, Carter decreed that they join the rest of the U.S. party in the more modest Hotel Britannia. "He's tight as a tick," said presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell of his boss. "He always has been; he always will...